_Nouns always printed with Capital Initials._--P. C. S. S. is desirous
of information respecting the origin and subsequent disuse of the
practice which appears to have prevailed among printers in the last, and
towards the end of the preceding century, of beginning every
noun-substantive with a capital letter. It prevailed also, to a certain
extent, in books published in France and Holland during the same period;
but P. C. S. S. is not aware of any other European language in which it
was adopted.